Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The conservative titan wrote
about "the supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. 'sexual assault,'"
in a piece on Friday. He put this trend down to increased political
correctness on college campuses, which, he said, was proving that when
universities "make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges,
victims proliferate."

Scott Esk is a conservative Republican running for a seat in the
Oklahoma state Legislature, and he says he wants to apply Biblical
principles to Oklahoma law. He also thinks that gay people should be put
to death by stoning. And he isn’t doing much to hide the fact that he
believes gay people deserve to be murdered, either.

Rob Morris,
who runs a local political website, discovered Esk’s views about gay
people while researching each of the candidates running this year. “This
is the first time I’ve ever come across an Oklahoman with this kind of
fringe attitude,” he told KFOR News Channel 4.

Morris
found an exchange on Esk’s Facebook page from last summer in which Esk
was asked if he believed gay people should be executed, “presumably by
stoning.” Esk responded: “I think we would be totally in the right to do
it. That goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m
largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of
death is very remiss.”

Morris followed up on the issue and Esk
hardly backed down: “What I will tell you right now is that was done in
the old testament under a law that came directly from God. And in that
time, it was totally just, it came directly from God. I have no plans
to, you know, reinstitute that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge
moral misgivings about those kinds of sins,” Esk told Morris.

When I think of Brad Schimel, I remember that he got ahold of Kathy Nicklaus within hours of her "finding " all those Prosser votes to reassure her...even though he was the person who would have had to prosecuting her had she been charged :

"Kathy,

You handled everything as well as possible yesterday. I had several events last night, and everyone I spoke with was very understanding about how something like this could happen.